2,690,624
total ballots were cast (difference from total votes for president is 93,991
or 3.5%).

Turnout
as a percentage of voting age population was 44.06%. (U.S. avg: 53.76%)...lNotes.
Only four candidates appeared on the presidential ballot (there were also
five certified write-in candidates). Independent candidates for president
were required to submit 38,113 signatures of qualified, registered voters
(one percent of the total number of voters registered and eligible to vote
in Georgia in the 1996 presidential election).

OverviewIn 1992 (Clinton) and again
in 1996 (Dole) less than 30,000 votes separated the Republican and Democratic
presidential tickets in Georgia; in 2000, however, Bush-Cheney walloped
Gore-Lieberman by 313,490 votes (11.69 percentage points). Bush carried
125 counties to Gore's 34. Libertarian Harry Browne achieved one
of his best showings in Georgia, while Ralph Nader, despite being a write-in
candidate, finished ahead of Pat Buchanan.